Monday, April 05, 2010

Like playing Scrabble? Soon you can use proper names...

Shakira will earn you 14 points, while Jedward are worth 19 and Brooklyn Beckham adds up to an impressive 37 - and that's without double and triple letter scores.

In a move that's sure to upset Scrabble purists and bring accusations of dumbing down, the official rules are to be changed to allow proper nouns for the first time in the game's 62-year history.

Ever since the first Scrabble set was sold in 1948, names of people and places have been banned. More...

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